SEMESTER 1 EXAM STUDY GUIDE

2007 – 2008

7^th grade science

1. Gather and review all of the following tests:

          * Safety Test: Lab safety rules in your notebook

          * Scientific Method Test: Scientific Method, Observation & Inference, and Measurement

          * Chapter 1 Test: Plate Tectonics

          * Chapter 5 Test: Rocks & the Rock Cycle

          * Chapter 4 Test: Minerals & Mining

*** Find your study guides (jeopardy sheets) for each of these tests and review them.  A study guide was not provided for the safety test. ***

2. Recommendations:

* Organize your tests & quizzes and make sure you have made corrections so that you are studying the correct answers.

          * Study all of these tests and quizzes!!!!

          * If you cannot find a test or quiz, make a copy of that corrected test from a friend.

          * Make flash cards from your jeopardy sheets to help you review the material.

* Your science notebook is an excellent resource to use in preparing for your semester exam.  Look over it and review the vocabulary from each section.  Highlight important points.

          * Review all of your warm-ups.

* Read over each chapter we studied in your text and answer the section review questions at the end of each chapter.

          * Review the vocabulary terms on QUIA.

** Optional Index Card:

You may hand write any notes on one side of a 3x5 index card to use while taking your exam.  Your index card may NOT by typed!  Turn your index card in to me by January 4^th in order to use it on the exam.  No exceptions!!!

This is a list of the main topics that you need to know for the exam.  This is by no means a complete list of all of the information you should study.  This list is simply an overview – you still need to study the detail!

Safety Test

- Lab safety rules – don’t memorize them, but make sure you understand them

- Labware – beaker, graduated cylinder, Erlenmeyer flask, volumetric flask, pipette

- Fire extinguisher procedures

Scientific Method Test

- Steps of the scientific method

- Experimental vs. Control setup/group

- Independent/Dependent/Experimental variables

- Observation & Inference

- How to use and correctly read a ruler (cm), balance (g), and graduated cylinder (mL)

- Difference between mass and weight

Plate Tectonics Test

- Geologists and what they study

- Layers and spheres of the Earth (review chart in notebook)

- 3 types of heat transfer and examples

- Convection in the earth’s mantle

- Theory of continental drift (Wegener) and the 3 types of evidence

- Theory of sea-floor spreading (Hess) and the 3 types of evidence

- Theory of plate tectonics (Wilson) and the 3 things it explains

- 3 types of plate boundaries

Rocks Test

- How geologists classify rocks

- Types of rock textures

- 3 origins of rocks and sub-rock types and examples of each

- Uses of rocks

- How each rock type forms

- Coral reefs

- Rock cycle

Minerals Test

- 5 characteristics that a mineral must have

- Properties of minerals

- 2 ways minerals form and examples of each

- Ores and smelting

- 3 types of mines

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